Posted on 09/28/2015 1:14:35 PM PDT by rightistight
Writing on the increasing fragility of the American college student, Dr. Peter Gray, a research professor at Boston College, detailed in Psychology Today about different cases where young adults showed an astounding inability to cope with minor hurdles in their lives. His article is titled "Declining Student Resilience: A Serious Problem for Colleges" and was published last week.
One incident that Dr. Gray describes is when two students saw a mouse in their off-campus apartment.
According to Dr. Gray, the students saw the mouse, panicked, and called the police. The police responded to the call, then set up a mouse trap for the startled students.
The students then sought counselling for what they had been through.
Dr. Gray explains that he has received emails from other college professors and Counselling Services which claim, "Less resilient and needy students have shaped the landscape for faculty in that they are expected to do more handholding, lower their academic standards, and not challenge students too much."
Other statements from faculty include, "Faculty, particularly young faculty members, feel pressured to accede to student wishes lest they get low teacher ratings from their students. Students email about trivial things and expect prompt replies."
As well as, "There is a sense of helplessness among the faculty. Many faculty members expressed their frustration with the current situation. There were few ideas about what we could do as an institution to address the issue."
Dr. Gray concludes, "If we want to prepare our kids for college—or for anything else in life!—we have to counter all these social forces. We have to give our children the freedom, which children have always enjoyed in the past, to get away from adults so they can practice being adults, that is, practice taking responsibility for themselves."
This is going on.
#HowDidWeWinWorldWarII?
My liberal daughter is at college and they had a mouse in their rental house. She asked me when to do and I said “Give it to the cat. She knows what to do with it”.
Evidently, I am guilty of Speciesism.
I remember working late in the stacks when I was in college and going to the bathroom, opening the stall door and seeing a rat. I told the person at the desk who just said, “yup, we have rats back here.” End of story.
Looked for the “Onion” reference, but didn’t see it...
Well, I bet the students in question were college coed cuties, so naturally the cops set the mouse trap for them, and probably fell all over themselves being helpful.
Now if they were dudes, they probably would have gotten wood shampoos.
It’s simply, really: be tough. Force them to toughen up. Coddling them as their parents and prior “educators” have clearly done is not a kindness.
#HowDidWeWinWorldWarII?
A bunch of young men with an eighth grade education but average to above average common sense mindful of their duties.
80+ years of the Welfare State have absolutely destroyed most peoples' self-sufficiency and ability to deal with life's situations. Its why the country is swirling down the toilet. People can no longer do for themselves.
Welfare
SSRI`s
No dads
Well now, the self-esteem emphasis for that generation certainly worked then, didn’t it.
On moving day into my first college apartment. A rat came out from behind the fridge and started munching on food packed by the outgoing students. Since the rat was mostly white (rather than the usual gray) I asked if it was a pet. They reassured me it was. It still bothered me that they let it run around free.
This reminds me of a recent article here about a heavy deer infestation in a liberal community in Oregon (I think). One woman wrote that she was “traumatized” when a DOE and two yearling followed her and the dog she was walking.
If (God forbid), TS ever does HTF, the casualty rate will be horrendous.
I think that’s about how much education my dad had at the time, if that. He’d had to work as a hired man since he was 11 to help feed his family.
#HowDidWeWinWorldWarII?
Carved in stone, at the bottom of our stairs where the whole family looks at as they come down to start their day, I have the following on a block:
Raise the child for the path, not the path for the child.
Around it are the kids pictures. They get to look at it too as the come down from their bedrooms. Most complaints about how I could do something for them, gets a response of pointing at the stone.
I’ll always help them, as long as they are really trying. But they are raised knowing what they do and what they get in life is their responsibility.
The oldest in in the second year of college, far away. She is amazed at how incapable so many are at simple life functions. She isn’t perfect, but she has learned to recognize her own faults, and select which ones she accepts and which ones need to change.
Wait until the muslims start cutting off their heads.
Easier to call a rat a pet than to have to deal with catching it....
;-)
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